Q-SYS Event Scheduler

A device-agnostic, hour-by-hour event scheduler that staff edit on a touch panel. At each event's time the plugin drives that event's target — a named output bus wired to your existing device drivers. It's "smart-timer with schedules": point it at video displays, audio, lighting, paging, room combine — anything. It scales to many events at many times across many targets per day.

Scheduling

• HH:MM granularity — schedule to any minute, not just on the hour
• Hour + Minute dropdowns — pick the time from two dropdowns (00–23 / 00–59); no typed colon
• 1–100 events — set the schedule size at design time
• Time-sorted, paginated view — 2–24 events per page with NavigateUp/Down and a page counter
• Edge-triggered firing — an event fires once, exactly as the clock ticks into its minute. A time already in the past never back-fires, and it can't double-fire while its minute is current
• Automatic daily recurrence — events simply fire again the next day at their time; no reset, midnight rollover, or fire window to configure
• Color-coded Status — a plain-language Status column shows each row as off, in 2h 05m (countdown to the next occurrence), or on 0:12 (Duration hold remaining)
• No back-fire on restart — a mid-day reboot never re-sends events whose time already passed
• Apply State on Boot — optional property that sets every target to its most recent already-past event at startup (catch-up to "now" after a reboot)

Device-Agnostic Targets

• A target is just a named output bus — no device dropdown, no vendor lock-in. Every fire writes the value three ways and the integrator wires whichever pin the device needs:
  • ValueOut (text) — e.g. a channel/source string (206, 212-1) → a device's channel/source input
  • NumOut (numeric, set when the value is a number) — e.g. an audio gain or a preset/scene index
  • TriggerOut (pulse) — e.g. a scene/snapshot recall, mute, or room-combine trigger
  • StateOut (boolean) — held true/false for boolean values (on/off, true/false, 1/0); wire into any logic input
• Trigger always pulses — same-value re-fires still reach the device
• Scheduled on/off or timed momentary — drive StateOut sustained (on … off), or give an event a Duration (sec) so StateOut holds true for N seconds then drops. The value latches (it's not re-sent), so e.g. a TV's channel is left as-is. Duration works for any value, not just on/off
• Example wirings — video display channel/source, switcher/AVR source select, lighting/scene preset, paging, mute, power/gate logic — all the same primitive

Editing & Presets

• Touch-panel editing — staff edit each row's time (Hour + Minute dropdowns), target, value, label, and on/off directly in the UI
• Read-only output monitor — the Targets tab shows each bus's Last Sent value (read-only), so operators can't accidentally type a value onto an output
• Named schedule presets — Save the working schedule into a slot; Load to replace it
• Persistent — schedule and presets are stored in the design and survive restarts

Live Feedback

• Next-event summary and active-event count outputs; CurrentClock time pin
• Color-coded Status per row, plus a per-event EventFired LED pin that mirrors whether the output is currently active
• Clear trial-expired state — every row reads expired and a banner warns events won't fire, so a lapsed trial is never mistaken for a scheduling bug

Diagnostics

• Debug Mode — verbose console logging
• Bench-test pins — SimulatedTime (override the clock with HH:MM) and ForceFireNow (fire every enabled event now) are available as component pins for integrators testing without waiting on the wall clock

Licensing & Deployment

• 30-minute trial — full functionality for evaluation
• Online activation — license key activation via vault.achkayem-solutions.com
• Unlimited or per-core licensing — offline-verified
• Persistent activation — license survives design restarts
• Q-SYS firmware 9.0.0+ required